Father Has Taken a Photo Every Day of Daughter's Life for 18 Years
When Suman Bansal was born in 1996, her father, like most parents, wanted to capture as many moments of his newborn’s life as he could. But Munish Bansal went above and beyond and has since taken a staggering 6,575 photos of his daughter — one for every day of her life so far. Now, in 2014, to honor her 18th birthday, he has compiled every portrait into an awesome montage that mirrors her current appearance.
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From ultrasound to adulthood, Bansal, 41, has faithfully taken a photograph of Suman, who turns 18 on May 16, 365 days a year for the last 18 years. He was inspired to start the project when his wife, Rita, was pregnant with Suman, noting that he wanted to see how a child changes on a day-to-day and month-to-month basis. (You can watch Suman age in the video above, which includes every photo her dad has taken.)
Bansal, who lives in Gillingham, Kent in the U.K. has never skipped a single day. He typically shoots before school or in the afternoons, but Bansal admits that there were a few times when the family almost missed the 24-hour window. “Once my wife thought I had taken the photos and while I was at work they went to stay at their aunt's home for a night,” he recounts in a Daily Mail article. “I had to go to her house to take the photos, but luckily they don't live far.” And then there was the time that dad got busy at work and didn't get home until after his kids were asleep. "But it suddenly clicked," he says. "I had to wake up the children."
It wasn't just Suman on the other side of Bansal's camera. He spent years taking daily pictures of son, Jay, too, but Jay wasn't quite as interested in sticking with it as his sister was and announced at age 15 that he'd had enough.
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But the commitment doesn't seem to faze Suman. “Being photographed every day just feels like any normal day as I have grown up with it my whole life,” the teenager admits in the same story. “At times it can become irritating as I don't always feel my best especially when I am running late.”
Suman is set to leave home and attend college in the next few months so the endeavor will come to a natural close, at least for now. We'll have to wait to find out if she carries on the tradition someday with her own offspring and makes dad proud.
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